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The greene prickly duoleherry is very like vnto the ordinary Goofebcrry in 

 llemine and branches, hut that they are not llored with lo many lharpe prickles; but 

 the young (hootes are inure plentiful] in ("mall pricklo about, and the greene leate is a 

 little f mailer : the rlowers are alike, and lo are the berries, being of a middle lize, and 

 not very great, greene when they are thorough ripe as well as before, but mellower, 

 and hailing a tew linall ihort prickles, like Imall lliort haires vpon them, which are 

 h.irmlelle, and without danger to anie the molt dainty and tender palate that is, and 

 of a verie good pleafant talle. The feede hereof hath produced bufhes bearing ber- 

 ries, hauing tew or no prickles vpon them. 



The Vfe of Goofeberrics. 



The berries of the ordinary Goofeberries, while they are fmall, greene, 

 and hard, are much vfed to bee boyled or fcalded to make fawce, both for 

 lilh and flelh of diuers forts, for the licke fometimes as well as the found, as 

 alfo before they bee neere ripe, to bake into tarts, or otherwife, atter manie 

 talhions, as the cunning of the Cooke, or the pleafure of his commanders 

 will appoint. They are a fit dilh for women with childe to Hay their long- 

 ings, and to procure an appetite vnto meate. 



The other forts are not vfed in Cookery that I know, but ferue to bee 

 eaten at pleafure; but in regard they are not fo tart before maturity as the 

 former, they are not put to thofe vfes they be. 



CHAP. IIII. 

 Oxyacantha, fed potius Berberis. Barberries. 



THe Barberry bufh groweth oftentimes with very high ftemmes, almoft two 

 mens height, but vfually fomewhat lower, with manie fhootes from the roote, 

 couered with a whitifh rinde or barke, and yellow vnderneath, the wood be- 

 ing white and pithy in'the middle : the leaues are fmall, long, and very greene, nicked 

 or finely dented about the edges, with three fmall white fharpe thornes, for the moll 

 part fet together at the fetting on of the leaues : the flowers doe growe vpon long clu- 

 llering llalkes, fmall, round, and yellow, fweete in fmell while they are frefh, which 

 turne into fmall, long, and round berries, white at the firft, and very red when they are 

 ripe, of a lharpe fowre tafte, fit to fet their teeth on edge that eate them : the roote is 

 yellow, fpreading tar vnder the vpper part of the ground, but not very deepe. 



There is (as it is thought) another kinde, whofe berries are thrice as bigge as the 

 former, which I confefle I haue not feene, and know not whether it be true or no : for 

 it may peraduenture be but the fame, the goodnefle of the ground and ayre where they 

 growe, and the youngnefle of the bufhes cauling that largenefle, as I haue obferued in 

 the fame kinde, to yeeld greater berries. 



There is faid to be alfo another kinde, whofe berries fhould be without ftones or 

 feede within them, not differing elfe in anie thing from the former : but becaufe I 

 haue long heard ot it, and cannot vnderftand by all the inquirie I haue made, that 

 any hath feene fuch a fruit, I rell doubtfull of it. 



The Vfc of Barberries. 



Some doe vfe the leaues of Barberries in the Head of Sorrell, to make 

 fawce for meate, and by reafon of their fowrenefle are of the fame quality. 



The berries are vfed to be pickled, to ferue to trimme or fet out difhes of 

 fifh and flelh in broth, or otherwife, as alfo fometime to bee boyled in the 

 broth, to giue it a lharpe rellilh, and many other wayes, as a Mailer Cooke 

 can better tell then my felfc. 



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